Awkward Orientals

United Airlines made a massive mistake when they played “passenger roulette” the other day and selected to remove Dr. David Dao. Whether you want to call the Vietnamese medic pluckily stubborn or allude to possible “mental issues,” Dao dug his feet in and refused to budge, leading to a messy display of violence by the flunkeys of the airline, and perhaps tarnishing its image forever. Dao will probably get a massive settlement but it will take billions to correct the bad image generated by this one incident. Removing already boarded passengers in this way is designed for sensible, reasonable, rational people who are not in a heightened emotional state—in short, bourgeois sheep. Most of them can be persuaded to give up their seat for a little money, which means the company can keep using the system of overbooking and thus maximise its asset utilisation. With Trump apparently moving against another awkward Oriental in the person of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, it is tempting to draw analogies between how airlines handle their passengers and how the US-led global system works. http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2017/04/awkward-orientals.html

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